From: Tang Junhui <tang.junhui@xxxxxxxxxx> Journal bucket is a circular buffer, the bucket can be like YYYNNNYY, which means the first valid journal in the 7th bucket, and the latest valid journal in third bucket, in this case, if we do not try we the zero index first, We may get a valid journal in the 7th bucket, then we call find_next_bit(bitmap,ca->sb.njournal_buckets, l + 1) to get the first invalid bucket after the 7th bucket, because all these buckets is valid, so no bit 1 in bitmap, thus find_next_bit() function would return with ca->sb.njournal_buckets (8). So, after that, bcache only read journal in 7th and 8the bucket, the first to the third buckets are lost. So, it is important to let developer know that, we need to try the zero index at first in the hash-search, and avoid any breaks in future's code modification. Signed-off-by: Tang Junhui <tang.junhui@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/md/bcache/journal.c | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) mode change 100644 => 100755 drivers/md/bcache/journal.c diff --git a/drivers/md/bcache/journal.c b/drivers/md/bcache/journal.c old mode 100644 new mode 100755 index 0352d05..4b6e651 --- a/drivers/md/bcache/journal.c +++ b/drivers/md/bcache/journal.c @@ -169,6 +169,11 @@ int bch_journal_read(struct cache_set *c, struct list_head *list) * find a sequence of buckets with valid journal entries */ for (i = 0; i < ca->sb.njournal_buckets; i++) { + /* + * We must try the index l with ZERO first for correctness due to + * exist scenario that the journal bucket is circular buffer which + * maybe have wrapped + */ l = (i * 2654435769U) % ca->sb.njournal_buckets; if (test_bit(l, bitmap)) -- 1.8.3.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-bcache" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html